Tara-Michelle Ziniuk
@tmziniuk
Editor, writer, media-maker, parent. Past lives in activism and community radio. Likes: menus, comics, lists, farmers markets, good poetry, bad TV. By day: managing editor @ Xtra Magazine
Happy Pride from this photo of a computer screen of my then-baby with a cardboard cut-out of Dolly 🌈💕👶🏼🎤☀️
Digital Publishing Awards 2026! Congrats to all the winners and nominees. 💫
I lasted a week, but today made the boomer move to email my city councillor about snow removal. This is a main street next to a high school, on an impossible to turn off of block because there are train tracks and no side streets.
I've done it. May this reason not to trust AI be the last straw.
From last week's panel with Journalists for Human Rights and the Dignity Network—moderator (and Canadian news legend) Lisa LaFlamme, panelist (and journalist/activist) Kevin Mwachiro, and myself.
Posted this on a private account last night and stand corrected, several friends between the ages of 40 and 45 may, in fact, force me to.
Happy Valentine’s Day - my teen returned a fork and an old Tupperware container she’d left at my coparent’s
Recommended Nikkya Hargrove's Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found in this week's Xtra Weekly. To subscribe to find out what we're publishing, as well as watching/reading/listening to/scrolling, sign up here: xtramagazine.com/newsletters
Wrote about my Chappell Roan journey and about 👑Chappell Roan👑 herself for Xtra’s annual list of righteous queens and shady bitches:
PSA: Crave has all four (though, in this house we speak not of S4). A holiday tradition.